Hi Phil
Sounds like the sparsebundle that TM backs up to hasn't been closed off or is
corrupt. This might take a while but try it :
Mount the WD share as a volume on your Mac's desktop, find the sparsebundle
file that TM backs up to
Open Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility > drag the sparsebundle into the
Disk Utility list
Select the sparsebundle file > first aid > repair disk
It might take anything up to 24 hours to scan over and repair, it might not
even be able to repair, but it's worth a go.
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On 19 Aug 2014, at 14:08, Phil Tomlinson <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Can anyone advise? Recently my Time Machine backup to a WD MyBook Live drive
> has gone disastrously wrong. I accidentally interrupted a backup just before
> it finished and this caused warning messages from Time Machine telling me
> that it would no longer make backups until a completely new backup was
> undertaken. (I hadn't realised that this meant it would erase all my old
> backups!!!)
> Since then I have attempted to carry out this big backup but the process
> (which has taken a couple of days) halted without completing. I received no
> message but perhaps the following may help those of you with the technical
> knowledge to understand: This message appeared once:-
> - "backup disk image "/volumes/Time Machine/Phil iMac.sparsebundle is
> already in use"
> My question is how can I correct either Time Machine? or WD My Book? to stop
> it thinking that a backup is already happening? (This is what I take to be
> the meaning of "already in use"). I have turned the WDMB off and then on
> again a couple of times, without success. Backups begin and go on for hours
> then cease without finishing...
>
> Phil T
>
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